The Hazelnut Shell Cure

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The feral cats here are hard-core. We've had our little battles with them over the last four years and I've been hard-pressed to defeat them. Our biggest fight with the ferals is over their poo. They launch their little "bombs" and we try to come up with a counter-attack. After coming to my last straw a couple of years ago, I did a bit of research and discovered from multiple sources that cats hate hazelnut shells and won't defecate in them. I thought I had found a solution. I thought I had triumphed against the cat community. I thought wrong. My husband and I spent a few days shoveling and loading hazelnut shells and layering them everywhere that they were needed. When we finished, the yard looked rather nice. But, I swear, it wasn't more than two days later when I found the telltale signs that the cats were still using the yard as their personal toilet. Despite the shells. And then it happened. I came home one day from the store, pulled up to the house, and found a feral cat sleeping on the last remaining open bag of hazelnut shells. The interwebz either lied to us about this cat cure or the cats on this street are a special kind of stupid. Back to the drawing board!